Zuck Brags About How Much of Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI
gizmodo.com
Social media companies claim to own your online profiles, and now they're generating billions by using them to train AI.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11642180

Instagram and Facebook have addicted users for the last 20 years, making sure to monetize us through advertisers every step of the way. Now, they’re revisiting your old posts, your special moments, and your big life updates, and using it to create billion-dollar AI tools. Zuckerberg’s braggadocious claim about Meta’s very large dataset comes shortly after The New York Times sued OpenAI over intellectual property. But Meta is pulling an old trick out of its playbook: extracting as much value out of Instagram and Facebook users as humanly possible, and totally owning your online self.

  • @BurningnnTreeEnglish
    37•5 months ago

    I’ve been thinking lately about how someone could use AI to make a “social network” site that works just like Facebook, except the user is the only real person and everyone else is AI. The AI users would respond very favorably to everything you post, and all of your posts would go viral. It would be kind of like an AI girlfriend, except instead of providing companionship, it would make you feel like you’re famous and popular. (I doubt Facebook would want to be associated with a product like that, but I bet someone will make something like that eventually.)

        • Aniki 🌱🌿English
          2•5 months ago

          You could run those models all locally without much fuss. You don’t need an entire chatGPT model to simulate the banality of social media.

          • @nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1•5 months ago

            Oooo yeah, sell it as offline/private social medial to the preppers. If we can make sure the algorithms gently steer people away from extremism over time, I think we could save the world.

            • Aniki 🌱🌿English
              1•5 months ago

              Thats a great idea! We make a social network and entice all the worst that the world has to offer and then use AI and algos in an anti-facebook kinda way where you drive only positive engagement and create false personas that uses subtle but increasingly positive messaging as a sort of deprogramming.

      • @Rubanski@lemm.eeEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        Don’t forget the microtransactions! Want Cool surfer dude who has the best relationship advice to accept your friendship request? 299 Zuckerbucks

    • @cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•5 months ago

      This is a great idea, so great that it might actually cause societal damage and also the death of Elon Musk, which might actually balance out

    • @elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•5 months ago

      Users would get bored quickly. The most engaging content on social media tends to be those posts that you disagree with or even anger you.

      The real trick would be to sprinkle in about 40% controversy, 5% trolling and a healthy dash of nonsensical hate posting.

      You need to give the user a tribe along with an opposition to defend the tribe against.